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1927 The temporary federal parliament building was completed and federal parliament moved from Melbourne to its new home in Canberra.
1978 It was decided that a new parliament building was needed to replace the temporary building which had been used for over fifty years.
1988 The new Parliament House was opened by Queen Elizabeth 2.
Coober Pedy
The name Coober Pedy is derived from the Aboriginal words "kupa piti", which means "white man's burrow". The description is apt because most people live and work underground.
Coober Pedy is located 836 kilometres (510 miles) north of Adelaide and about 300 kilometres south of Uluru.
It is a desolate landscape devoid of vegetation and water. It is an extremely hot place too. The entire landscape is pockmarked by the telltale tailing of countless opal mines.
In 1915 a young boy named Willie Hutchison, who was out with his father prospecting for gold, discovered the first opal there. Since then the town has grown to about 2500 people.
Coober Pedy produces about 90% of the world's opals.
Because of the extreme heat during the summer almost all buildings are located underground.
Great Barrier Reef
The Great Barrier Reef stretches along the east coast of Queensland in Australia. It is the world's largest coral reef . It is over 2000km (1250 miles) long! It is not a single reef at all. It is made up of over 2900 individual reefs very close to each other
WHAT IS A CORAL REEF?
A coral is a tiny marine polyp. It is the living part of the coral reef. There are many different kinds of corals. Strine - Australian Slang Australian Strine consists of words and phrases which: · have different meanings from other English (like American English or British English), · we have made up ourselves or · we have borrowed from Aborigine words or from slang used by early settlers. The Dandenongs The Dandenong Ranges are located approximately 40 kilometers from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. HEALESVILLE SANCTUARY The Healesville Sanctuary is a place where you can see Australian native animals in natural bushland surroundings. The sanctuary also carries out research and breeding programs for many endangered animals. There is a real cool Koala enclosure, platypus tank and snake pit too. Here is the official web site for the Healesville Sanctuary The Exhibits page is very good. PUFFING BILLY RAILWAY It is great fun riding the Puffing Billy Railway as it weaves its way up the mountains. We even get to sit on the windowsills and dangle our legs out the windows. If you look closely you can see some people doing just that. Because its a stream train you get coal dust in your eyes and on your clothes. When the weather is really dry and there is a danger of bushfires the Puffing Billy 's steam engine isn't used. That's because a spark from its steam engine could start a bushfire. They use a diesel engine instead. Here is the official web site for the Puffing Billy Railway . TULIP FESTIVAL Every year thousands of visitors come to see the tulips at the Tesselaar Tulip farm in Silvan. There are many other gardens in the Dandenongs too. UPPER BEACONSFIELD Upper Beaconsfield is located 53 kms (33 miles) south-east of Melbourne in the Dandenong Ranges on the southern foothills of the Great Dividing Range. Upper Beaconsfield retains much of its rural heritage and atmosphere with tree lined streets, varied eucalyptus forests, wet-lands, fern gullies and secluded creeks. THE GREAT OCEAN ROAD The Great Ocean Road starts at Torquay (about 100kms from Melbourne) and winds its way for 180 kms along the south-western coast of Victoria , Australia. It is one of the most spectacular coastal drives in the world. It winds its ways around ragged cliffs, windswept beaches, and tall buffs and passes through lush mountain rainforest and towering eucalyptus. The Great Ocean Road was started in 1918 and completed during the Great Depression as a public works project to give returned soldiers and unemployed people work. Some of the sights along the way are: · Bells Beach - a great place to go surfing and where the Bells Surfing Classic is held each Easter. · Shipwreck Coast - where the wrecks of over 80 ships lie on the ocean floor. Many ships carrying immigrants to the gold fields of Victoria floundered in the treacherous seas. · Lorne - a popular sea side resort in Apollo Bay. · Port Campbell National Park - One of the most photographed sections of the road where shear golden limestone cliffs and rock formations withstand the buffeting of fierce seas. o Twelve Apostles -(there are only 10 left!) o London Bridge (This is what it looked скачать реферат 1 2 3 4 5 6 Не нашли нужную работу? Закажи реферат, курсовую, диплом на заказ Внимание! Студенческий отдых и мегатусовка после сессии!
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